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NewPages Newsletter Issue 96 Featuring 48 Calls for Submissions and Writing Contests
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Happy Monday. Mother Nature has decided that it is really autumn now and has sent on cold weather and winds to the Midwest. If your weather is getting just as cool and dismal, NewPages has plenty to keep you interested while you relax in your favorite sweater to read or write. October will officially be half over with after the weekend, so that means you have our mid-month eLitPak newsletter to look forward to next week. Interested in promoting a book, new journal issue, upcoming event, or something else? There are still four spaces available.
In NewPages news, we have made dedicated pages for the monthly roundup of new literary and alternative magazines as well as new books received. If you missed out on that announcement last week. You can view the new issue announcements for September here and the new book announcements for September here. These pages will be updated the final week of each month with all of the announcements we receive so you can keep up to date.
The Magazine Stand highlights noteworthy issues so you can learn more about the latest releases from your favorite literary and alternative magazine. Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts has launched a podcast to lift the words from its pages and present them in a new and meaningful way. In issue 86 episode 4, host Nick deCourville takes the audience on a journey toward discovering unexpected truths. Issue 44.3 of New England Review features prose by Adrie Kusserow, poetry by Laura Newbern, a play by Caridad Svich, translations from the Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Chinese, a novella by Lori Ostlund, and so much more.
The Fall 2023 issue of The Writing Disorder online literary journal remains true to its roots in publishing works that highlight the classic art of storytelling with work by Jessie Atkin, Elizabeth Crowell, Deb DeBates, Italian artist Delia Ciccarelli, and more. Come back to the Magazine Stand throughout the week to discover the October 2023 issue of About Place Journal, the October 2023 issue of The Lake, and the Fall 2023 issue of Superpresent.
In book news, don't forget to check out the Book Stand which highlights new and forthcoming titles primarily from indie and university presses. They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice—the latest book from award-winning Pittsburgh author Lori Jakiela—is much more than a cancer memoir, it celebrates the tiny moments that make up a time capsule of a life with cancer almost an afterthought. Emily Grandy’s Novel Michikusa House, winner of the Landmark Prize for Fiction, follows Winona Heeley who spent the last year of recovery from eating disorders in rural Japan at Michikusa House where she meets full-time resident Jun Nakashima and forms a connection. When Winona returns home, Jun vanishes.
Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour’s poems in Dirt Songs are full-throated, raw, deceptively simple, and rippling with candor, providing readers an insider’s lens into the larger questions surrounding the many aspects of Appalachian culture, including identity, the impact of poverty, generational afflictions, and the brunt of mainstream America’s skewed regard for the region. Jason Brightwell is a masterful shepherd whose poems guide us through the many facets of death in the poetry collection Graveyard Dogs.
Sean Patrick Mulroy’s poetry weaves together stories from his coming of age in the American South of the 1990s with the broader history of gay men in America in Hated for the Gods which is as much a call to action as it is a work of literature. Kevin Clouther’s Maximum Speed moves across time and point of view to dramatize youth’s aftershocks. George Witte’s poems in An Abundance of Caution gain their depth and dimension from attentiveness to the lives of others, the details of the natural world, and the often-bewildering ways we live now.
Come back to the Book Stand throughout the week to discover The Adorable Knife by Jessica Purdy, No Use Pretending by Thomas A. Dodson, mahogany by Erica Lewis, The Book by Mary Ruefle, and Furniture Music by Gail Scott.
NewPages Blog
Stay caught up at our blog. There you can take in short reviews, contest & book award winners, book & literary magazine news, new issues of literary magazines, new and forthcoming titles, and cultural & political news.
Get more recommendations from our reviewers. Susan Kay Anderson reviews Because I love you, I became war by Eileen R. Tabios which “makes real the fact that Tabios felt strongly compelled, passionate, and driven to collect some of her rescued writings and preserve them in book form” after she loses part of her life’s work during the Glass fire in Napa Valley. Meanwhile Kevin Brown reviews Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe, “an incisive and insightful book about what it means to be Black in America today.”
Below are this week’s writing contests, calls for submissions, and literary and writing events. Enjoy 48 opportunities to get your work published or to enhance your writing craft. Please note: only paid subscribers get access to this information! You can become a paid subscriber for only $5 a month and get early access to submission opportunities and events before they go live on our site.
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